New Delhi: The controversy over the Vyapam scam-linked deaths erupted as the Madhya Pradesh police had included the names of dead persons as accused in its FIRs registered in the cases pertaining to the admission and recruitment scam, the CBI has found.
The CBI was entrusted to look into the alleged conspiracy to eliminate suspects booked in the admissions and recruitment scam in Madhya Pradesh. The probe agency was asked to investigate deaths of 24 individuals.
Among the 24 deaths, 16 had taken place much before the deceased were booked in the Vyapam scam by the state police, the probe has found, ruling out any conspiracy behind the deaths.
The remaining deaths were due to natural causes, the agency said.
Ram Shankar (name changed) had died on June 18, 2007, from drowning but seven years later he was named as an accused in an FIR pertaining to alleged irregularities in the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board known as Vyapam, the sources said.
The probe into the case of Shankar, whose death was alleged to be the result of a conspiracy to eliminate suspects in the Vyapam scam, shows he had died on June 18, 2007, the sources said when asked about the case of mysterious deaths linked with Vyapam.
However, in an FIR registered on June 18, 2014, the state police had named him as an alleged impersonator who solved papers of aspirants for a price, they said.
The post-mortem report also shows death from drowning.
